15, 2016: The “Hamilton” cast recording wins a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. 28, 2015: The MacArthur Foundation names Miranda a “genius grant” fellow.įeb. 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart and will peak at No. 25, 2015: The original Broadway cast recording of “Hamilton” is released on CD. 6, 2015: “Hamilton” moves to the Richard Rogers Theater on Broadway. It wins eight Drama Desk awards, including Outstanding Musical.Īug. 20, 2015: “Hamilton” premieres at the Public Theater. Miranda tweets that he’s “overwhelmed by your response to Hamilton tix on sale.” July 29, 2014: Tickets go on sale for Miranda’s new show – now named just “Hamilton” – to premiere in January, off-Broadway at New York’s Public Theater.
Three cast members of this workshop production will join the off-Broadway cast a year-and-a-half later. By this point, he has the entire first act and three songs of the second act done. July 27, 2013: Miranda performs a workshop production of his work at the Vassar Reading Festival. He performs them as part of a “Hip-Hop Song Cycle” at the Lincoln Center’ American Songbook series. 11, 2012: Miranda now has several songs done. May 12, 2009: Miranda is invited to perform at the “White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word.” Instead of music from “In the Heights,” he performs the first song from his “The Hamilton Mixtape” project – a song that will later become the musical’s opening number. Inspiration strikes him to set Hamilton’s story to music. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is currently facing.July 2008: While on break from his hit Broadway show “In the Heights,” Lin-Manuel Miranda takes Chernow’s book with him on vacation in Mexico. Miranda recently used his creativity to bring awareness to the $70 billion debt crisis that the U.S.
What’s important about this is Miranda used these music genres and this unique cast to hit on tough topics, such as immigration, that have been disputed in the United States since its founding.Īs Miranda’s popularity on Broadway and film has grown, he also has been spreading awareness about other contemporary problems. Secondly, it is the first large-scale musical where rap and hip-hop are accepted by the masses. “Hamilton” has been the first musical to break two barriers on Broadway: First of all, the cast is mostly Black and Latino - challenging the predominantly White cast typical of a Broadway performance. Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted his musical “Hamilton” in February 2015, and it has been a huge success in the United States and around the world. One man exemplary to this is the writer of the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” Living in the “Information Age,” we can use this trend - or others like it - to spread awareness about important contemporary issues. Lin-Manuel Miranda in ‘Hamilton’ (Image credit: Disney)
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